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Each of us loves summer in his own way. But there is something unifying in this love — an unimaginable wealth of fruits and berries, which nature generously spoils us day after day. And if vitamin treats suddenly get bored, you can always make some interesting dessert. The Kenwood kitchen machine will help to turn natural fruits and berries into delicious desserts, while preserving all the useful properties. Together with it, you will cope with any even the most time-consuming recipes quickly and easily, like a real professional.
Apricot Iceberg
Apricot is one of the main summer fruits, which will make an amazing sorbet. First, we divide 1 kg of apricots into halves and remove the seeds. We fill the pulp with 150 g of sugar in a saucepan, pour 350 ml of water and simmer on low heat for 10-15 minutes from the moment of boiling. Now we will make a fruit puree. This will help us with the Kenwood kitchen machine with a heat-resistant glass blender nozzle. High temperatures are not terrible for him, so apricots together with hot syrup can be sent directly from the fire to the bowl. Sharp blades made of high-quality stainless steel will instantly grind them into a smooth, tender puree.
While the apricots are still languishing in a saucepan, squeeze the juice from 2 medium lemons. Here the help of the citrus press nozzle will be indispensable. A rotating cone with sharp edges of a special shape squeezes all the juice from the citrus halves to the last drop. Do not worry if there are a lot of seeds in the fruits. All of them will gather in a fine sieve, and you will get the freshest lemon juice completely cleaned.
Combine it with the cooled apricot puree and mix well. Usually, the fruit mass is removed in the freezer for at least 2-3 hours and periodically loosened with a spatula so that it does not freeze. There is a much more practical and fast solution — an ice cream maker nozzle. In advance, we put it in the freezer for 8-12 hours, after which we install it instead of the main bowl in the kitchen machine and fill it with apricot puree with lemon juice. Due to the cooled walls and constant rotation, the sorbet will be ready in some 20 minutes. You will have to spread it out on the cremans, decorate with a waffle and mint petals.
Berry-peach zebra
Ice cream from the supermarket is boring and questionable from the point of view of the composition of the ingredients. What can not be said about homemade ice cream. Moreover, it is not so difficult to prepare it.
Beat 6 egg whites into a foam and gradually pour 200 g of sugar — we should get persistent peaks. So that they do not fall off, you have to use a hand mixer for too long and with a uniform effort, always in one direction, for which you need to make significant efforts. But the whisk attachment for whipping allows you to achieve a perfect result without any effort. It’s all about the spherical springy shape of the nozzle, which saturates the proteins with air in seconds, gives the most lush volume and a stable texture.
We transfer the whipped whites to a separate container. Using the same whisk for whipping, we turn 400 ml of cream into a thick, silky mass. The higher the fat content of the cream, the tastier the ice cream. Without stopping, we introduce fluffy proteins and 400 ml of milk into the cream. We continue to beat until the mass becomes homogeneous. Due to the continuous planetary rotation, this stage will take a few minutes.
Next, you need to make a light puree of 250 g of peach pulp and a dark puree of 250 g of berry mixture. It is better to entrust this task to the food processor nozzle. The universal sharpest blades will prepare for you a delicate puree with a flawless texture in no time. We divide the whipped protein-cream base into two parts. In one we mix peach puree, in the other — berry.
Now it’s the turn of the ice cream maker nozzle again. Do not forget to put it in the freezer for the night in advance. The secret lies in the freezer bowl and a special rotating mixing nozzle. This technology reduces the cooking time of ice cream to 20-30 minutes, whereas the traditional method matures it within 5-6 hours. We put the peach base in the ice cream maker, and then we enter the berry one through a special hole. If you want to get beautiful colored streaks, turn on the ice cream maker at the lowest speed. That’s all — you can lay out an elegant delicacy on the cremans and treat your relatives.
Berry whirlwind in a glass
Surely someone from home is watching the figure and stoically refuses sweets in any form. They are unlikely to be able to ignore the vitamin berry smoothie in your performance.
The basis for it will be a berry assortment of 300 g of blueberries, 150 g of raspberries and 150 g of blackberries. You can take any other berries at your discretion. The more different varieties, the tastier and healthier the smoothie. We need to squeeze the juice out of them. The berry press nozzle will cope with this stage quickly and efficiently. It works on the principle of a screw meat grinder, allowing you to extract the maximum amount of juice from berries of any density and size.
We will also need the juice of a large green apple. This will be provided to the universal juicer nozzle. Its main advantage is a wide receiving mouth, in which you can lay the whole apple without peeling it from the peel and core. Working at high speed, the centrifuge juicer separates the juice from the pulp and foreign fragments, allowing you to squeeze everything to the last drop.
Mix the berry mix with apple juice and add 100 ml of almond milk. A portion of this vitamin smoothie will be supplemented with a crumb of almonds. A multifunctional shredder nozzle will help to grind it into an ideal crumb. Sharp knives instantly chop nuts and other hard products. This is the best alternative to a combine when you need to prepare a small amount of ingredients. Decorate the smoothie with berries — and you can taste it.
Muffins with the taste of summer
Summer pastries with fruits and berries are an incomparable pleasure. Muffins with nectarines and strawberries will convince even those who are indifferent to sweets.
First, let’s do the test. We combine 2 eggs with 80 g of sugar in the bowl of the Kenwood kitchen machine. Stirring continuously, gradually pour in 50 ml of olive oil, and then pour in small portions of 150 g of flour with 1 tsp of baking powder and a pinch of salt. We recommend using a K-shaped mixing nozzle. Thanks to a specially thought-out shape, wide blades and planetary rotation, the nozzle smoothly glides along the very walls and bottom of the bowl. Due to this, all the ingredients are kneaded into a perfectly smooth flowing dough. And the flour that you add in the process does not gather into lumps and does not settle to the bottom. When baking, the product from such a dough will turn out to be unusually airy, tender and will keep its shape well.
Now you need to dice the pulp of 2 nectarines and 8-10 large strawberries. To do this, we will need a nozzle for dicing. Just a few seconds, and the ingredients will be cut into smooth, beautiful cubes one to one. The final touch is to coarsely grate 60 g of white chocolate. Let’s use a low-speed grater-slicer. It will cope with the task much faster than a conventional grater. At the same time, the chocolate will not have time to melt, and your hands will remain clean. The desired cutting size can be easily adjusted using removable cutting discs with holes.
So, we pour the cubes of nectarines and strawberries, white chocolate chips into the finished liquid dough, mix everything again. Fill the greased muffin molds with the dough and put them in the oven preheated to 190 °C for 25-30 minutes. If you serve muffins warm, add them with a ball of ice cream.
Banana-raspberry idyll
Make little sweet tooth happy with a milkshake with banana and raspberry. First of all, carefully beat 4 yolks and 50 g of sugar until the mass turns white, becomes thick and slightly increases in volume. The whisk attachment for whipping will help to cope with this task quickly and without extra effort. It instantly turns the liquid components into a homogeneous mass, gives it the required density and additional volume. Continuing to beat the eggs, we add 1 tsp of vanilla extract to them in turn, 150 ml of milk and 35% cream each, slightly heating them over low heat. The result should be a lush homogeneous mass.
Next, we will prepare a puree of 2 large ripe bananas and 200 g of fresh raspberries. There is no equal to the blender nozzle in this. Both components can be laid at the same time by chopping bananas with thick circles. Just one click — and in a minute you will have a sweet puree with a perfect texture at your disposal. Do not forget to set aside a few raspberries for decoration.
Let’s resort to a little trick — we will use the nozzle with an ice cream maker, after leaving it overnight in the freezer. If you mix the milk base and banana-raspberry puree in it, the cocktail will cool down faster, it will turn out to be airy and will be covered with a delicious foam on top. Rather, pour the milkshake into high glasses and cheer up the little sweetmeats.
In summer, there is no particular desire to bother with long preparations in the kitchen. But I want exquisite desserts more than ever. The Kenwood kitchen machine will help to fulfill even the most demanding desires. She is ready to work hard without days off and vacations, giving you the opportunity to enjoy your vacation. She can be entrusted with routine work, which usually takes so much time and effort. And you will get the most pleasant part of the culinary action. Together with such an executive assistant, you will be able to please your relatives with delicious desserts all summer long.